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Beauty style: The Sybarite

I'm writing this column while wearing a black Yohji dress, channelling Leigh Bowery and listening to the Konki Duet's wondrously whimsical cover version of Fade to Grey. On my nails is a fittingly putrid green nail polish by Barry M. Actually, nails are my subject this week - in particular, the fluoro pinks and metallics that have become the fingertip hegemony of the season. No doubt the political theorist and genius Gramsci (were he currently writing a beauty column from his prison cell in Ustica) would have had something to say about this latest cultural edict. But the rest of us, suckled at the teat of the fashion media, absorb the trend anyway, go out and buy our pink and gold, and think no more about it.

Fluoro pink, worn with a little inspiration from the music of New Young Pony Club, can certainly be fun, young,